ENHANCING THE SUCCESS OF YOUR CORN CROP
This Pioneer® Seeds Corn Growers Guide aims to provide the essential information any farmer needs to know to be a successful corn grower, including those new to corn as a crop. The guide includes:
- Introduction
- Strike Trials - Developing Better Hybrids For You
- What Is A Profitable Crop
- History Of The Corn Plant
- The Corn Plant
- How The Corn Plant Grows
- Nutrient Requirements Of Corn
- The soil - our bank balance
- Nitrogen (N)
- Phosphorous (P)
- Potassium (K)
- Secondary and micronutrients
- Manure
- Use of manure
- Water Management Of Corn
- Weed control
- Fertiliser
- Plant population
- Hybrids
- Weed Control In Corn Crops
- Insect Pests Of Corn
- Choosing A Corn Hybrid
- Market requirements
- Maturity
- Tolerance to heat and moisture stress
- Disease and insect resistance
- Multiple cobbing
- Husk cover
- Tillering
- Corn Populations and Plantability
- Grain Harvest
- Corn For Silage
- Summary
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